Jeff Brohm made the media rounds in Indianapolis on Wednesday, conducting TV and radio interviews. Doesn't hurt to keep Purdue's name in the forefront on the slowest sports day of the year. This is all about recruiting.

Highlights of Brohm's interview with Dan Dakich on 1070 The Fan includes taking two quarterbacks to Big Ten Media Day, scheduling philosophy and recruiting in-state players.

What do the Boilermakers need from Bailey this season? Co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Nick Holt explains.

"Just what he’s been doing," Holt said. "Markus has got to do his job and we can’t put too much on his plate either and expect him to do too much. He wants to do it anyway and he tries so hard. We need to let Markus be Markus and we’ll put him in a great position.

"He’ll be more of an inside backer this year and he’ll be around the ball a lot more even though he was around the ball a lot last year. He was good Sam backer. There will be times he has to go back to playing Sam. Markus likes to be a Will backer. That's his favorite position. He's being a leader and he's more vocal. His weight room numbers have improved."

Here's a list of Purdue opponents on the Bednarik Award list:

Northwestern: Joe Gaziano, DE; Paddy Fisher, LB

Missouri: Terry Beckner, DT

Boston College: Zach Allen, DE; Lukas Dennis, S

Ohio State: Nick Bosa, DE

Michigan State: Joe Bachie, LB

Iowa: Anthony Nelson, DE

Minnesota: Thomas Barber, LB

Wisconsin: T.J. Edwards, LB; D'Cota Dixon, S

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Purdue is sending quarterbacks David Blough and Elijah Sindelar along with Bailey to Chicago next week for Big Ten Media Days.

Get your quarterback questions ready.

I reached out to the Big Ten to see when was the last time a school sent two quarterbacks to media day.

"I am not aware of any previous instances, though we do not have complete records of attendees," replied Adam Augustine, communications director for the league office.

"You’ve got to make it fun for them to a certain degree. It can’t be drudgery to come over here every day and do the same thing over and over again. It takes a lot of hard work. You’ve got to make it fun and you’ve got to let them enjoy everyone’s personality and enjoy competing and having some fun with it and you’ve got to make practice as fun as you can and hopefully when you’re doing that, they buy in."

That quote came from Jeff Brohm on June 13 during an interview with two local reporters. The question was - How close are you to finding (players who love football) right now with this roster?

Jeff Brohm sits at No. 37 - a 29 spot jump from 2017. Looking at Purdue's 2018 schedule, Brohm ranks ahead of six coaches he'll face on the other sideline and sits behind six others. I guess that means the Boilermakers will finish 6-6, based on this unscientific method.

June 11

Another roster change on the first day of summer school and the start of summer conditioning: Offensive lineman Peyton Truitt has left the program, the Journal & Courier has learned. The West Lafayette native will remain at Purdue to finish his academic work.

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Purdue is hosting Texas linebacker Zach Zimos on Tuesday and Wednesday on an official visit. The 6-foot-4, 215-pound Zimos committed to California in April but de-committed in May. He received an offer from the Boilermakers in late May. Zimos is considering Arkansas, Missouri, Texas Tech and Purdue.

Quarterback Griffin Alstott has made his move to Western Michigan official.

He's changed his Twitter handle to "Quarterback at Western Michigan University."

The Purdue Rivals site (goldandblack.com) first reported Alstott's impending transfer earlier this spring. His leaving isn't a surprise when you look at the current quarterback depth chart and the arrival of Jack Plummer in the spring.

Jeff Brohm will likely add another quarterback in the 2019 recruiting class, whether it's Clemson transfer Hunter Johnson from Brownsburg or one from the high school ranks. In fact, the Boilermakers are hosting a quarterback on an official visit this weekend - Paul Piferi from Villa Park in California. That's the same high school Nick Sipe attended.

Alstott isn't listed on WMU's roster yet but will probably show up when summer school starts. Alstott still remains on Purdue's roster - along with another player who wears No. 5, safety T.J. Jallow - who won't return next season (academics).

The program is slow to update its roster - too slow in my opinion. Don't look for a new roster until right before training camp, based on how last summer played out.

Tim Lester, who spent one season as Purdue's quarterbacks coach, is the head coach at WMU.

June 1

Update to the information about T.J. Jallow (below): Jallow was the only academic causality following the spring semester.

If you recall, Purdue paid Western Kentucky $900,000 to terminate his contract and the school called it a loan. The wording has been changed to "Expense Reimbursement." Under the original contract, $150,000 of the amount would be forgiven each year until the balance reached $0. That's still the case.

However, one of those reimbursement "payments" has been eliminated. If Brohm leaves Purdue before Dec. 31, 2018, he would owe the school $600,000 along with liquated damages of $4.4 million.

Just remember when Brohm's name surfaces with other jobs during the 2018 season, the money owed to Purdue will be $5 million. Not a lot of money to big-time athletic departments but that's the number. Those numbers decrease the longer Brohm stays in West Lafayette.

Receiver Terry Wright has joined the track program. With the blessing of head coach Jeff Brohm, the junior joined the program after spring practice in April.

Wright could participate in this weekend's Big Ten Championships in Bloomington, either the 100 or one of the relay events.

Receiver Malcom Dotson is also a member of coach Lonnie Greene's program.

May 7

Although Purdue hasn’t made an official announcement, Eron Hodges has taken over the role as the football program’s Director of Player Personnel.

According to Hodges’ offer sheet from the university, obtained through an open records request by the Journal & Courier, the native of Joliet, Illinois will be paid $95,000. Hodges replaces Don Dunn, who retired in April.

Hodges comes to Purdue from Ohio State where he served as the program’s Assistant Director of Player Personnel since December 2016. He also worked as a defensive graduate assistant at Kent State.

Hodges served as linebackers coach at Valparaiso in 2012 before joining Ohio State’s strength and conditioning staff in the offseason. He worked at Notre Dame in 2011 on the strength and conditioning staff. Hodges spent two seasons as a student assistant coach at Illinois State.

Purdue is expected to name Mike Jasinski as the program's Director of Football Recruiting in the near future.

May 6

Western Kentucky offensive lineman Dennis Edwards, who we mentioned last week (below), is all set to transfer.

In an exchange of texts with his former head coach, Phillip Hawkins said 6-foot-4, 300-pound Allen was having a "bad morning" and said he's still coming to Purdue. Hawkins added Allen was scheduled to post another statement but not sure of the timing.

We have unpublished our original story until we get more clarity about the situation.

Jeff Brohm has found a replacement - or maybe replacements - for Don Dunn, who retired as the program's director of player personnel earlier this month.

According to footballscoop.com and Cleveland.com, Ohio State's Eron Hodges will join the Boilermakers as the director of player personnel, per both websites. Hodges has been OSU's assistant director of player personnel since December 2016.

Hodges has changed his Twitter handle to reflect his new job but we'll wait to see the exact title when the school issues a press release since he may not be the only individual joining the department.

The Journal & Courier has learned head coach Jeff Brohm also interviewed Mike Jasinski for the position. Brohm planned to hire Hodges and Jasinski for the position but that might change.

Jasinski is the director of scouting at Northwestern and has also served as assistant director of player development for the program.